The Seducery

I had to cut this short due to some major computer issues yesterday and this morning. It’s all fixed now, so no worries. This had three more tiers on it, but you’ll see them Tuesday. So we’re set up good for next week since that’s 75% done. I’m wrapping two comic elements between this one and the next comic. James’ personal ‘lovequest’ and an old running gag next week. Ellie left James hanging out there with her DateBait job, like she did many others, but now she’s making it right, even if by happenstance.

I’m still working on two Patreons that are semi-long, and forced to be by their nature. But I will post them as soon as they’re done. There’s a bit of a skirmish transpiring, and fight scenes are not something with which I am very adroit. But here’s a preview.

That depends on how you count. I notice that ‘not’ is used twice, which means only nine unique words were used in the post.

Then there’s the typing method of counting words, where every five characters is considered a word. By that metric, the 45 characters in the post also result in a total of nine words.

Taking into account the one method that results in a count of ten words, an average of the three methods works out to an average of 9.3333333 words, which is also less than ten words. And finally, while the post contains the phrase ‘ten words’, it does not solely consist of the phrase ‘ten words’, so the post is mostly not ten words.

The firsting committee recognizes this comment as first due to a technicality. The technicality is that the firsting needs to be that the subject of the statement is not about the statement itself. Since this statement is in the negative about the statement itself, it falls upon the committee to drum up so many words to sidwswipe the name of a transformers robot in order to celebrate the fact that James has copious amounts of balloons, a new balloon dealer and is able to quote “Sienfeld” copiously at being seduced.

Very well then, I will rectify the matter by exclaiming that firstly, Rusche really needs to publish Shotgun Shuffle in book format. Set up a Kickstarter and blow it up! I’m sure the many devotees you have secured would be seriously seduced by the opportunity to see Ellie’s adventures in print and pony up the bucks to make it happen.
Secondly, this story line rocks!

Yep, I’m pretty sure Rusche knows that he’d have a lot of support if he Kickstarted a print version.

I think it’s the task of getting this to print that’s the sticking point. When you look at the various comic sizes and imagine trying to get them all to fit on pieces of paper that are all the same size, that’s a large task. Add in his frequently stated dissatisfaction with his older art (and the fact that he’d have to look at it quite a lot or redo it) and that’s another disincentive. While he could potentially hire out the pagination work, considering how much he strains at times with pages that crash his computer or feeling bad about late posts because he wants one that’s 10 rows tall, it might be difficult for him to feel ok hiring it out too.

So our bookshelves will all have to remain content with that empty space for the time being.

Having worked with someone who put together their comic in a book, it takes a lot of time (months) to get it in a decent format with a printer after glossing over samples and seeing a final draft. There were three of us, and the artist went into hiatus for nearly half a year to get their comic printed.

Thus, the Kickstarter. Either he makes enough money to just work on his comic and get a book version, or he doesn’t and the project gets shelved, for the time being. Other web artists have been blown away by how much they bring in for printing a book and basically “quit their day job.” It’s worth taking a flyer on it. After all, you don’t have to prep anything for Kickstarter, other than the campaign itself. We’re the ones who have to spread the word of mouth.

It really depends on what kind of patience and time you have to devote to the project.

Also, Kickstarter has as many success stories from making the goal as it does dismal endings for making the goal. People have to be super organized and ready for a Kickstarter, or they can end up failing miserably. Kickstarter backers can be incredibly unforgiving. Especially if something they love is not up to their personal standards (ask some of the board game producers who get Kickstarted – most go through a period where some people ask for their money back and it sort of hijacks your self-esteem and confidence – and then some site completely obliterates their brand).

I understand not wanting to do it until you have a team and some spare time. And maybe some of your own funding that you’re willing to use.

Yeah, but those have to be durable enough to be reused year after year. I’m just using them as proof of concept that you can make intricately designed inflatables. So scaling them down shouldn’t pose too many issues from an engineering standpoint.

I’m happy to see things going well for James, and the Catwoman balloon is pretty sweet IMO.

and..(because I’m just getting past a fight scene in my own little comic myself) I think you nailed the action sequence in your Patreon arc pretty well. Kinda wish I had the monetary means to see what’s going on it.

Rusche wants all his fans to be able to see all the art and only has them Patreon exclusive for a while to offer some value to those who are supporting him there. He was pretty clear about that back when he started with Patreon (only after a lot of us bugged him to do so, as I recall).

I mean, yes, it’s a sneak peek for peak entertainment. But as we have now seen, The Pumpkin Chronicles are on the main site. I felt kind of guilty that I couldn’t support him in some way. I felt like I was opening comic books at the store just to read them.

Also Rusche specifically stated that he fully understands that not everyone has spare cash to help support as he’s been in that situation himself too, he values all his readers, and he wants to share the entirety of the story with absolutely everyone who’s interested.

He didn’t state it, but if I extrapolate from my own tendencies, I’d feel bad accepting money from people if I weren’t offering something in return, and as someone who’s been a Patreon since the beginning, I can understand and accept that, but I greatly appreciate that he moves them to the main site later for all to see. I support Rusche because I want the story to continue and I want everyone to get the fullness of the story.

So don’t feel bad. We each do our own part, and I don’t always have time to keep the comment section lively (I’ve even missed reading the comments for several comics, though not the comics themselves, obviously).

And Chris has got to be a patreon pioneer in doing just that. Well, I suppose that there have been some precursor precedents from popular media. Mostly from the pay channels. “Dead Like Me”, “The Walking Dead” to name a few. How many others are out there using Patreon exclusively for the sneak peaks alone? I’d say that Chris is re)atively alone in that stance.

Depends how generous you are defining your comparison metrics. Early access to scheduled site comics is reasonably common. I’ve seen some random one page things that either went on shirts or were for other contests that didn’t show up on the main site (but might in his DeviantArt or Facebook or other places I don’t watch), so I’m not sure that it’s quite 100% of all content, but it is 100% of story-related content (and as of the last time I logged into Patreon he hadn’t done any adult content for Patreons only or anything of that nature). I know I’ve seen several artists say they would consider Patreon but they can’t think of any good side content to offer.

Off the top of my head, and I’m not certain as I’m not a Patreon for that comic (or at least not yet, I’ve been considering it next time I remember to log in and go through my Patreon backlog), the comic The Far Side of Utopia mainly has early comics, the types of pics that are used as vote incentives, and the occasional side story that comes to the main site later as filler when the artist’s on vacation or something. So that seems close.

I’d suspect there are others out there too. That’s not to detract from Rusche’s stance, which I appreciate and agree with, but there are others out there of similar mindset.

Instead of flowers, the bride has to throw all of those balloons at the reception. However, hidden amongst them is a harlequin rose. The girl who gets that rose is the one who gets to dress as Harlequin for her wedding.

Oh, I suppose on the balloons, we could try to find a way to weld latex so that the shape can be formed to match the balloons. I don’t think that they will be cheap at all. At least not until we are able to partner with DC in order to license the characters and crowdfund the necessary funds to set up a manufacturing base in order to bring down the costs of production through the workforce getting more and more experience in creating said balloons.

“Ellie left James hanging out there with her DateBait job, like she did many others, but now she’s making it right, even if by happenstance.”

This is a very good point. It was originally a means to get Ellie a functioning job and maybe branch her into a new career–party planning–but a lot of good has come of it, though unintentional. For those who believe in karma–or even just “as ye sow so shall ye reap”–it’s worth wondering if accidental sowing qualifies.

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It’s like I said back in the beginning of this plot: assassin girls need love too. Why, I’ll bet even Loose Cannon got hooked up, and is currently having sex in the fountain in front of the hotel as we speak. Possibly with the fountain. I’m not sure.

Your point caused me to imagine giant spider It getting stuck in a tunnel because he’s just toooooo tubby. Then I felt a little bad for him. You made me feel sorry for a child eating horror beyond our understanding. Now YOU are the monster.

Being in the same grade is one thing, I don’t think that it necessarily means that they went to school together. That makes me think of the group of boys from “A Christmas Story” or that James, Richard and Ian are hanging out now.

In the comic ‘Name Dropping’ currently dated 8/30/13 it’s shown that they’re on the same page of the yearbook. We also know Ian and Ellie went to school together which is probably where he and James met. Presumably Ellie and James never met in high school since neither seemed to recognize the other during their “date”.

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